1663 in literature
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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1663.
Events
- February - The Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres (the Academy of the Humanities) is founded in Paris.
- February 24 - John Milton marries Elizabeth Minshull.
- May 7 - The King's Company inaugurate their new theatre, the first Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London, with a revival of Fletcher's The Humorous Lieutenant.[1][2] The play is a hit, and runs for twelve straight nights — very unusual in the repertory system of the time.
- August - The Playhouse to Be Let, an anthology of work by Sir William Davenant, is performed at Lincoln's Inn Fields in London.
- December 1 - John Dryden marries Elizabeth, sister of Sir Robert Howard; Dryden and John Aubrey become Fellows of the Royal Society in the same year.
- Katherine Philips' translation of Pierre Corneille's Pompée is successfully produced at the Theatre Royal, Dublin (Smock Alley Theatre) in Ireland, the first rhymed version of a French tragedy in English and the first English play written by a woman to be performed on the professional stage. It is published in Dublin and London later in the year.
- In the Electorate of Bavaria, a legal deposit law mandates the deposit of copies of newly printed books in the Bavarian State Library in Munich.
- In England, Roger L'Estrange is appointed Surveyor of the Imprimery and Printing Presses[3][4] and licenser of the press.[2]
- Publication of the Third Folio of Shakespeare's works by Philip Chetwinde in London, adding Pericles and six plays of Shakespeare Apocrypha to the canon.
- Publication at Cambridge in the Massachusetts Bay Colony of the "Eliot Indian Bible" (Mamusse Wunneetupanatamwe Up-Biblum God), the first complete Bible published in the Americas, a translation by English-born Puritan missionary John Eliot of the Geneva Bible from English into the Massachusett language (Natic or Wômpanâak) variety of the Algonquian languages, printed by Samuel Green.[5]
New books
- Francisco Santos - Día y noche de Madrid, discursos de lo más notable que en él pasa
- Molière - La Critique de l'école des femmes
New drama
- Anonymous - The Wandering Whores' Complaint for Want of Trading (published)
- Miguel de Barrios - El Espanjol de Oran
- Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery - The General
- Henry Cary - The Marriage Night
- Abraham Cowley - The Cutter of Coleman Street
- William Davenant
- The Playhouse to Be Let (performed)
- The Siege of Rhodes Part 2 (published)
- John Dryden - The Wild Gallant
- Andreas Gryphius
- Absurda Comica, oder Herr Peter Squentz
- Papinianus
- James Howard - The English Monsieur
- Sir Robert Howard - The Committee
- "T. P." - A Witty Combat, or the Female Victor (once attributed to Thomas Porter)
- Thomas Porter - The Villain
- Richard Rhodes - Flora's Vagaries
- Sir Robert Stapylton
- The Stepmother
- The Slighted Maid
- Sir Samuel Tuke - The Adventures of Five Hours (adapted from Antonio Coello's Los empeños de seis horas)
- Pedro Calderon de la Barca
- El divino Orfeo
- El mágico prodigioso
Poetry
- Abraham Cowley - Verses Upon Several Occasions
- Sir William Davenant - Poem, to the King’s most sacred Majesty
- José Martinez Guindal - Poema sagrado de Christo paciente
- Juan de Ovando Santarén - Ocios de Castalia
Births
- February 12 – Cotton Mather, New England Puritan author and minister (died 1728)
- March 6 – Francis Atterbury, English man of letters and bishop (died 1732
- March 22 – August Hermann Francke, German theologian (died 1727)
- May 20 – William Bradford, American printer (died 1752)
- Unknown dates
- William King, English poet (died 1712)
- George Stepney, English poet (died 1707)
- Probable year of birth – Delarivier Manley, English novelist, playwright and pamphleteer (died 1724)
Deaths
- April 5 – John Norton, English religious writer (born 1606)
- April 17 – David Questiers, Dutch poet (born 1623)
- July 14 – Elizabeth Egerton, countess of Bridgwater, English essayist (childbirth, born 1626)
- October 31 – Théophile Raynaud, French theologian (born 1583)
- December 5 – Severo Bonini, Italian music writer (born 1582)
- Unknown date – Claude de Bourdeille, comte de Montrésor, French memoirist (born c. 1606)
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